Langmore Lab - Avian behavioural ecology
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TeachingBiology 3131 : Evolutionary and Behavioural Ecology
Biology 2111: Australian vertebrates I am also always interested to hear from undergraduate students who would like to undertake Special Topics or Honours research projects Research interests
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Lab awards and achievements1995 Junior Research Fellowship, Peterhouse, University of Cambridge
1999 Australian Research Council Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship 2004 Australian Research Council Australian Research Fellowship 2004 J G Russell Award, Australian Academy of Science 2004 Elected as Councillor to the Executive Committee of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology 2011 Australian Research Council Australian Research Fellowship PublicationsSelected publicationsLangmore, NE, Hunt, S & Kilner, RM (2003) Escalation of a coevolutionary arms race through host rejection of brood parasitic young. Nature, 422, 157-160.
Starling, M, Heinsohn, RG, Cockburn, A & Langmore, NE (2006). Cryptic gentes revealed in pallid cuckoos Cuculus pallidus using reflectance spectrophotometry. Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences. 273: 1929-1934 Russell AF, Langmore NE, Cockburn A, Astheimer LB, Kilner RM. (2007). Reduced egg investment can conceal helper effects in cooperatively breeding birds. Science 317: 941-944. Langmore, N.E., Maurer, G., Adcock, G.J., Kilner, R.M. (2008). Socially acquired host-specific mimicry and the evolution of host races in Horsfield's bronze-cuckoo Chalcites basalis. Evolution 62: 1689-1699. Langmore, N. E., Cockburn, A., Russell, A. F., Kilner, R. M. (2009). Flexible cuckoo chick rejection rules in the superb fairy-wren. Behavioral Ecology 20: 978-984. Heinsohn, R., Langmore, N. E., Cockburn, A., Kokko, H. (2011) Adaptive sex ratio adjustments via sex-specific infanticide in a bird. Current Biology, 21: 1744-1747. Kilner R. M. and Langmore, N. E. (2011) Cuckoos versus hosts in insects and birds: adaptations, counter-adaptations and outcomes. Biological Reviews, 86: 836-852 Langmore, N. E., Stevens, M., Maurer, G., Heinsohn, R., Hall, M. L., Peters, A., Kilner, R. M. (2011). Visual mimicry of host nestlings by cuckoos. Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences 278: 2455-2463 All publications Click here to see a full list of publications on the ISI website...
Recent grantsARC Discovery Grant 2004 – 2010 DP0450188 ‘Escalation of a coevolutionary arms race between cuckoos and their hosts: cognitive causes and evolutionary consequences’ ($475,000). Other participants: Rebecca Kilner, University of Cambridge (PI)
ARC Discovery Grant 2005 – 2008 DP0558800 ‘The effect of breeding synchrony on avian reproductive strategies’ ($259,740). Other CI: Simon Griffith, University of New South Wales ARC Discovery Grant 2011-2015 ($440,000) ‘Cuckoo - host coevolution: a model system for investigating the impact of climate change on interspecific interactions and biodiversity’ Other participants: Robert Heinsohn, ANU (CI); Rebecca Kilner, University of Cambridge (PI); Robert Lacy, Chicago Zoo (PI). Hermon Slade Grant 2012 - 2015 'A unique non-human model for the evolution of musical tool use: drumming by the palm cockatoo' ($78,891). Other participants: Robert Heinsohn (CI)
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